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 (Reproduced from North American Congress on Latin America – Report on the Americas, Vol. XXXIV, No. 1, Jul/Aug 2000, with thanks) by editor Jo-Marie BurtOn July 13, President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill that includes a package of $1.3 billion in mostly military aid for Colombia. This massive infusion of assistance will not … [Read more…]

Spanish Civil War veteran who kept alive the memory of his comrades who left their homes to fight against Franco and fascism The following obituary of Bill Alexander appeared in theTimesof 14th August. In reproducing it in our paper we merely wish to comment that the conservative and imperialist organ –The Times– managed to give a … [Read more…]

 Election resultsZimbabwe’s parliamentary elections, in the outcome of which imperialism had placed high hopes, have proved rather disappointing for it. ZANU(PF) won 62 out of the 120 contested seats, five more than were won by the so-called Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), headed by Morgan Tsvangirai, a revolting flunkey of imperialism. Of the 2.8 million … [Read more…]

– an imperialist carve-up threatening to disintegrate The first part of this article was in the May/June LALKAR. Below we reproduce the second, and concluding, part.Part 2BananasTechnically, the Final Act does allow governments to take measures to protect the environment and public health, but the question is: where does one draw the line? With the ‘Frankenstein … [Read more…]

TheNew York Timesof 16 June reports that“a new study by the World Bank concludes that struggle for control of valuable commodities such as drugs and diamonds is more often the underlying cause of civil wars than political, ethnic or religious divisions.” If the World Bank had taken out a subscription toLalkar, it could undoubtedly have … [Read more…]

 Shaka Sankofa, formerly known as Gary Graham, was executed by the state of Texas by lethal injection on June 22 for the alleged robbery and murder of Bobby Lambert, a white drug dealer, in Houston in 1981. He was the 135th person to be executed in the 5 years that George W. Bush has been … [Read more…]

 Longbridge updateWhen the last issue ofLalkarcame out the news had just broken that the notorious Alchemy bid for Rover had fallen through. There was no time to change the text of our article, which went through as written. In any event, the analysis of the crisis of overproduction and the causes of under-capitalisation of the … [Read more…]

 This issue of the 58 killed refugees was on the front page ofThe Timesof 20 June, and how do they report the deaths of these refugees? Who do they blame? The blame is given entirely to the gangsters who are organising the journeys – “who care only for money, not for the safety of their … [Read more…]

10 June 2000: One year on, since NATO halted its illegal 78-day illegal bombing of Yugoslavia. Undermining International LawImperialism, on 2 June 2000, through Justice Carla Del Ponte, the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, in effect announced that while imperialism remains the dominant world ideology, there will be no justice. The exact … [Read more…]

 Lalkar salutes the Lebanese resistance for its successful struggle in defeating the Zionist forces and their quislings, the so-called South Lebanese Army, which had been in occupation of a fifth of Lebanon for a decade and a half in complete violation of UN resolutions and international law.The defeat of the arrogant Zionist army of occupation … [Read more…]